The Red Church | cultural heritage / national heritage, interesting place, historic ruins, 4th century construction

 church, cultural heritage / national heritage, interesting place, historic ruins, 4th century construction

The Red Church (Bulgarian: Червена църква, transliterated: Chervena tsarkva) near Perushtitsa is one of the rare examples of early Christian Byzantine architecture, which has been conserved in a good condition. From the reproductions of the archaeologists, who have worked on the relics, it is clear that the church had been an impressive building in its days.

The church is built in the end of the 4th century, and at that time it supposedly served as a martyrium (a home to the relics of a saint). Later, during the 6th century, the building was turned into a basilica, and to its central part a chapel was added to the South and a baptistery to the North. Probably in the 7th century, during the time of the raids by the Kumans and Pechenegs, the building suffered serious damages. In the 11th - 12th century a renovation was done both of the building itself and of the frescoes; a necropolis was build on the Northwest around the church, a portico with colonnade was added from the West. Its steps are still visible nowadays.

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